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Make sure to visit with us at booth 313 and join our vendor presentation by John Baker, z/OS Performance Specialist, (Tuesday, August 2, 1:45pm, Session 19159, room L503 ) – abstract is below – and enter to win a GoPro camera. John is also presenting a technical session on Wednesday on Relative Nest Intensity and why your job might run longer than expected, and is participating in a "vendor shootout" on capping and controlling the R4HA on Monday afternoon; see below for…

There is no shortage of available metrics to provide detailed insight into system performance. The problem is sorting through them all and recognizing what’s important. Utilization, for example, comes in many forms. Hiperdispatch can make or break performance, and processor cache… well, a faster CPU won’t help you with a cache miss. This session will discuss these and other key performance areas to watch, what to look for, what to ignore, and what… well, as they say – it depends.

The ThruPut Manager team will once again be hopping the pond and joining vendors and participants at GSE in Whittlebury, England. Visit with John Baker and Al Lindstrom at the MVS Solutions booth, and come and hear John speak at session LG: “Why did my job run so long? Speeding Performance by understanding the cause” on Wednesday, November 2nd at 10:45 am in "Woodcote Room. Session Abstract: Delays are part of our daily lives. We wait in line at the grocery store, at…

Join us at IBM TechU Baltimore where the ThruPut Manager team will exhibit and Nancy Difilippo, Senior Product Specialist with MVS Solutions, will present on ThruPut Manager and how it can maximize savings with CMP sub-capacity pricing (Thursday, November 3, 2016@8am). Session info: Country Multiplex Pricing (CMP) Is Here – What You Need to Know to Minimize Your MLC Costs – IBM’s Country Multiplex Pricing (CMP) became available last October. Virtually every mainframe shop with more than one CPC/CEC should be interested…

The ThruPut Manager team will be participating in the upcoming international conference – CMG imPACt 2016! Visit with us at the booth, but be sure to take in one of the three sessions at which John Baker will be presenting, and get a Z pin in order to be eligible to enter the GoPro camera giveaway. More details are available on our CMG imPACt page.

Join us in Las Vegas for CA World 2016. The ThruPut Manager team will be exhibiting at booth 2002. We look forward to visiting with you. Come by and learn more about batch automation with ThruPut Manager, and the enhancements that Production Control Services offer to customers running CA Workload Automation CA 7 Edition.

Our next webinar hosted by IBM Systems Magazine will once again feature John Baker. He will present "Where's my bottleneck now? Staying ahead of your 4HRA" Abstract – Following a hockey puck can be challenging. It moves really fast and it’s not always obvious what the next player is going to do. Wayne Gretzky famously said: “Skate to where the puck is going; not where it’s been”. The same analogy can be applied in most sports: football quarterbacks throw to…

Join the ThruPut Manager team at SHARE in San Jose. Visit with our sales and marketing team in the Exhibitor Hall, and join John Baker as he presents "Why did my job run so long? Speeding performance by understanding the cause" on Thursday, March 9@8:30am (location TBA). John will also be participating in another z/OS Pricing, SoftCapping, and Capacity Product Shootout on Monday, March 6@1:45pm (location TBA).

Join us for the next in our ongoing webinar series presented by IBM Systems Magazine, featuring John Baker, z Performance Speciazlist, and Selby Shanly, Principal Developer (ThruPut Manager Automation) presenting "How busy is too busy? Automating your system for maximum throughput." Abstract: What is utilization anyway and why should we care? Intuitively we know it’s a measure of how “busy” our system is and we know that affects how fast things run. We probably know that we don’t want utilization to…